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I watched the Blu-ray this afternoon. Color and clarity are superb, and the film is never going to look any better than this. The clarity makes the extreme soft focus for all of Lucy's close-ups piercingly obvious, especially when director Gene Sacks cuts back and forth between Lucy and whoever...

I got the Blu-ray of Mame for Christmas, so it will definitely be on today's agenda for viewing.

I also never tire of re-reading The Season. It is the most intelligent book ever written about the Broadway theater. Things have changed along the Great White Way in the decades since it came out, but there are still many truths to be unearthed in that book.

AND the score is a lot of fun to listen to. I have it on a stereo LP.

You beat me to it. Judging by reviews at the time, her acting was not considered adequate.

As far as I know, "Loving You" was written specifically for the movie Mame. I don't believe it was pulled from Jerry's trunk like "Love Is Only Love." Frankly, "It's Today" was a song from Jerry's off-Broadway show Parade with a different lyric.

About twenty years ago, Bruce Kimmel put out a CD called Sondheim at the Movies (highly recommended, by the way), and on it "The Glamorous Life" was sung by Cassidy Ladden. If Elaine Tomkinson's version is my favorite, that one runs it a close second. She is simply magnificent. I LOVE Audra, and...

I agree completely. It's a wonderful number and far surpasses the original stage version of the song. In the London revival with Judi Dench as Desiree, they tried to combine the two versions of the song, but I much prefer the film version incarnation. Sadly, in the Catherine Zeta-Jones revival...

A couple of clarifications about Lionel's post above: Wildcat was a flop, but not because of Lucy's voice or the lack of an audience. It was SRO from the time it opened (Lucy's mega TV fame assured that), but Lucy hadn't counted on the tedium of a long Broadway run performing the same material...

After Bette Midler scored such a major success with Gypsy on television, there was serious talk of a made-for-TV film of Mame starring Cher. I don't know whatever became of those plans.

It would have been SOME better because the musical elements involving the title character would have been given the lyrical acting talents that Miss Lansbury brought to the table, something Miss Ball never was able to muster. Notes would have been sustained (and thus rhythms adjusted more...

Happy to read that the disc is up to snuff. I've long since reconciled Ms. Ball's inadequacies as a musical leading lady and can find things in Mame to enjoy despite the ill-equipped over-the-title star.